by Arthur Japin, Marta Arguilé Bernal · Roca Editorial de Libros · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496544178
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«El primer amor de Casanova» is the historical novel by Arthur Japin, published by Roca Editorial de Libros in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
In eighteenth-century Venice, Lucía, a fourteen-year-old servant, meets Giacomo Casanova when he is still a seminarian. Their budding love is interrupted when she falls ill with smallpox. Years later they meet again transformed: Lucía is a famous courtesan and Casanova, a renowned seducer in Europe.
Translation by Marta Arguilé Bernal; original title: Een schitterend gebrek. Belongs to the Histórica collection from Roca Editorial. Winner of the Libris Literatuurprijs 2004.
The novel is aimed at readers of European historical fiction and stories of reunions and second chances.
Arthur Valentijn Japin is a Dutch novelist. He has won almost every prestigious prize in Dutch literature, including the Libris Prize for his 2005 novel Een Schitterend Gebrek.
